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Education
- Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University of Chicago, 2026 (expected)
- Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Political Science and Economics, Swarthmore College, 2017
- Major in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Peking University, 2014
Job Market Paper
Publications
Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis
Bartik, Alexander W., Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin, Jesse Rothstein, and Matthew Unrath. "Measuring the Labor Market at the Onset of the COVID-19 Crisis." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2020, 239–68.
The Federal Reserve’s Dual Mandate and the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
Kaya, Ayse, Stephen Golub, Mark Kuperberg, and Feng Lin. "The Federal Reserve’s Dual Mandate and the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff." Contemporary Economic Policy 37, no. 4 (2019): 641–51.
Work in Progress
The Geography of Superstar Firms
Hsieh, Chang-Tai, Feng Lin, and Enrico Moretti. "The Geography of Superstar Firms." 2025.
Awards, Scholarships, and Grants
- University of Chicago Martin and Margaret Lee Prize in Economics, 2021
- Swarthmore College Graduated with High Honors, 2017
- Swarthmore College Phi Beta Kappa, 2017
Teaching Experience
Research Experience and Other Employment
- 2022 - 2024: Research Assistant for Professor Christina Patterson, University of Chicago
- 2018 - 2020: Research Professional for Professors Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago
- 2017 - 2018: James C. Gaither Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Professional Experience
- Presentations:
- 2025 - 2026: Trade/Spatial Working Group
- 2024 - 2025: Trade/Spatial Working Group, Capital Theory, CCSRG
- 2023 - 2024: Applied Macro Theory, Trade/Spatial Working Group, CCSRG
Other Writing
- Making Sense of UN Sanctions on North Korea (with James Schoff), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2018
Skills
- Programming: R, Julia, MATLAB, SAS, Shell Script, LATEX
- Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (JLPT N1)